About

I live in the Surfcoast Shire in the tiny township of Moriac and have made artwork continuously for 40 years while dedicating considerable energy and time to learning and teaching. The history of art and a love of beauty have been constants throughout my life. In 1994 I gained the first PhD in Australia in visual arts research at Deakin University and this enabled me to co-found Brougham Art School and Gallery in Geelong where my colleague Shirley Hurley and I were able to develop a program of art teaching based on a unification of history, theory and practice in art. These days a multidisciplinary practice including painting, sculpture, collage and drawing dominates my daily existence.

While ranging over a variety of subjects including landscape, still life and the human form and often juxtaposing nostalgic and contemporary imagery, I aim to set up a dialogue questioning just what it is the viewer sees and understands; both reflecting on the past while developing new language structures and contemporary types of information. I explore how incongruent, anachronistic images, multiple perspectives, materials and forms, even the remnants of established iconographies, can modify our view of what is normal.

This question of how we “renormitivise” our worldview pervades my multidisciplinary practice. The visual language I try to develop moves inexorably towards diversity and disparity whilst seeking a new aesthetic.